Offense: Josh Malone. It's time he put up big numbers after coming out of high school as a 5 star recruit. He's not met those expectations yet. It's time Josh to get it done!
Defense: Malik Foreman. He started making plays towards the end of last season & I think he will be even bigger in 2016.
He's now capable of matching up one on one with opposing WR's. He's also become a sure fire tackler as well. This means we will have 2 solid CB's with Sutton coming back.
I'm going to add a category here myself!
Top newcomer breakout players for 2016:
Offense: Tyler Byrd. If he gets to play on offense that is but he will probably at least be our KR/PR guy when the season starts. I don't think we want to keep Sutton doing that to keep him safe from injuries.
Byrd signed as an ATH so he could play a number of positions. He will probably end up at CB but we will see. Alternate player in case Byrd plays defense is Marquez Calloway(WR) out of Georgia. One other guy that's honorable mention on offense will be Vincent Perry(WR). We lost him last season due to season ending injury before he played a single game.
Defense: Jonathan Kongbo. I know he's JUCO & most JUCO's haven't performed too well for us but this guy is a beast. Should be right behind Barnett & Vereen at the DE position. Probably coming in as the two-deep at one DE along with Kyle Phillips as the other DE.
Honorable mention newcomer on defense will be Nigel Warrior at S. If Tyler Byrd ends up on defense playing CB then I would have to put him before Nigel Warrior as the honorable mention breakout player on defense.